The Diary of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller

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Publisher's Synopsis

A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE
 
"Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times
 
"Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..." -The Daily Mail
 
The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland-and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . .
 
In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be.
 
Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite-or maybe because of-all the peculiar characters there.

Book information

ISBN: 9781612197241
Publisher: Melville House
Imprint: Melville House
Pub date:
DEWEY: 381.45002092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 463g
Height: 223mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm